Stop guessing your food costs — MarginGuard tracks your menu margins in real time

Hey Product Hunt 👋

If you run a restaurant, you probably already know this problem:

Your ingredient prices change every week…
but your menu prices don’t.

So your margins slowly disappear — and you don’t notice until it’s too late.

Most small restaurants track food costs in spreadsheets, which means:

• Updating ingredient prices manually (if it happens at all)

• Recalculating recipes is time-consuming

• No clear view of which dishes are actually profitable

That’s why we built MarginGuard.

MarginGuard helps you stay on top of your food costs without the spreadsheet chaos.

What it does:

• Automatically updates ingredient prices

• Recalculates recipe costs instantly

• Shows real-time margin per dish

• Alerts you when items go over target food cost

• Upload invoices → extract prices automatically

Instead of guessing, you can finally answer:
👉 Which dishes are actually making me money?

We’re focused on one thing: helping small restaurant operators protect their margins without adding more work.

If you’ve ever dealt with food cost spreadsheets, I’d love to hear:
What’s the most frustrating part of tracking your costs today?